Per Barab, if approved, the 2019 budget proposal would eliminate the Susan Harwood Training Grant Program and the Chemical Safety Board. However, given how Congress reacted to proposed cuts of those programs last time around — as Barab put it, they “had about as much lift as a Butterball Turkey when the administration floated these ideas” in his 2018 budget — he isn’t too worried it will actually happen.

“There’s a saying that there’s no education from the second kick of a mule. With a little lobbying and common sense, we can only hope that the Trump administration will get to witness that phenomenon” with these proposed cuts, Barab wrote.

Additionally, the 2019 budget proposal looks to eliminate two advisory committees dealing with whistleblower protections and federal employee safety and health, Barab wrote. They would be the Federal Advisory Council on Occupational Safety and Health and the Whistleblower Protections Advisory Committee.

As far as OSHA’s overall budget is concerned, Barab said it would, if approved, remain “mostly level,” with a $5.1 million increase from 2017 in enforcement and a $3 million increase in compliance assistance, mostly, Barab wrote, “to add Compliance Assistance Specialists who had been cut in previous years due to budget limitations” plus “eight staff to work exclusively on the Voluntary Protection Programs.”